The tragic end of Book Depository
The sudden closure of UK-based Book Depository has sent a shiver through the Australian literary scene. As one of Australia’s most…
Ardern’s last speech to Parliament commits her to climate action
Remember when Jacinda Ardern said, rather tearfully, ‘I don’t have enough in the tank.’ A sniffle later, the former Prime…
Richard Dawkins committed the cardinal sin
The West is a theocracy. Not a Christian theocracy – or even an Islamic one – but rather a theocracy…
15 minute cities: burning to the ground
Are this century’s ideological peasants finally revolting? It certainly seems that way after residents set fire to road block ‘planters’ which…
Victoria needs Voltaire
So modern and fabulous we think we are… But it was the French philosopher of the Enlightenment period, Voltaire, who…
Social media: radicalising the West into the climate cult?
Facebook users are aware of the suffocating control the platform exerted over the Covid narrative. The Silicon Valley giant became…
Labor’s Net Zero dream left in the car park
Nothing describes Net Zero better than Labor’s campaign ‘e-bus’ sitting dead on arrival in front of reporters after suffering a…
To win, the Liberals must destroy the climate cult
Scrolling through Instragram, I came across a likable North Shore member running for the New South Wales state election. He’s…
OnlyFans: the last stop for Western feminism
Barely a day goes by without tabloid publications spruiking a ‘good news’ story about some poor, oppressed woman or D-grade…
CLARIFICATION – FLORADA
On 14 February 2023, The Spectator Australia published an article entitled ‘Covid killed the Roses’ on our Flat White column…
Hopping off into Woke madness: Puma drops kangaroos
Sportswear giant Puma has gotten itself into a bungle. To polish its Woke credentials, the company decided to drop its…
Woke rail networks want to save the planet, but they can’t look after their stations
I was born in Wahroonga. Attended school there. In the decades since, I have lived in and around the little…
Plibersek, stop handing public money to billionaires
Mining giant and Fortescue Metal executive chairman Andrew Forrest said at a Sydney conference this week: ‘We are fat and…
iPhone’s ‘Clean Energy Charging’: the beginning of dystopia
iPhone users raged on social media after they discovered why their devices have been a bit sluggish on the charging…
Peter Dutton: incapable of giving a straight answer on the Voice
Blue-Ribbon Liberals desperately want Peter Dutton to succeed. They want him to stand up and emerge from the Turnbull-Morrison rubble…
Science: prostituting itself for the luvvies
Hauling icebergs to Africa: could a bizarre plan to get drinking water actually work? It’s a headline so odd it…
China’s Covid response ‘a miracle in the history of human civilisation’
Someone is lying about Covid – we just need to work out who it is… The Chinese Communist Party held onto draconian…
Energy starvation: the West goes hungry to keep the lights on
Mainstream and government-based publications have been running concerning headlines in recent months regarding food insecurity in Western nations – including…
Fission vs fusion and the limits of utopian energy
All operational nuclear power plants are based upon the breakthrough technology of nuclear fission. A controlled chain reaction is initiated…
The vegans will starve: it’s a bug-eat-bug world out there
Clicking on the link to a recent Reader’s Digest story about common foods that secretly contain insects was a mistake. I could…
Slice and dice social justice: organs in exchange for liberty
There are some headlines that make you wonder about the direction of our so-called ‘progressive’ civilisation. Not only are our…
#ChineseSpyBalloon
Communists make really poor neighbours. This week, in the spirit of raising international tensions for no good reason, the Chinese…
Jordan Peterson vs Klaus Schwab: who will ‘rule ze vrold’?
The best James Bond film plot in town was released yesterday when Canadian clinical psychologist Dr Jordan Peterson announced on Joe Rogan’s…
What (conservative) women want
Something strange has been happening in conservative politics. The Liberal Party is being told that the only way it can…
Eventbrite cancels Dr Peter McCullough: ‘dangerous speech’ or the rise of truth?
This morning, ticket platform Eventbrite sent out an email informing its customers that the hotly anticipated event, Dr Peter McCullough Covid-19…